Blogs

Blogs are submitted from NHS-R Community members.

Recoding an NA and back again

“Replace NAs with replace_na() and code to NA with na_if()”

R tip

Showcasing a function - `separate()`

“Separating codes from one cell couldn’t be any easier in R”

R tip

Building a Quarto website for NHS-R Community

“Delving into the blog history of NHS-R Community as the site moves into the future with Quarto”

Personal Story

Navigating the Data-Driven Frontier: Insights from an NHS-R Committee Member

‘It is with great excitement that I share my recent journey as a committee member with the NHS-R Community, a vibrant hub dedicated to championing the use of R and data science tools in the UK health and care system.’

Committee

Prajwal Khairnar

Success story - Kate Cheema, Director of Health Intelligence, British Heart Foundation

“Success story”

Success Story

Success story - Dr Lydia Briggs, Data Scientist, GOSH

“Success story”

Success Story

Success story - Dr William Bryant, Senior Data Scientist, GOSH

“Success story”

Success Story

Count of working days function

Creating a function to work out the number of working days a seasonal bus ticket can be used.

Function

Thoughts on the NHS-R conference

“Reflections on the 2018 Conference”

Conference

John MacKintosh

NHS-R Conference: was it worth it?

“Reflections on the 2018 Conference”

Conference

Text Mining – Term Frequency analysis and Word Cloud creation in R

“Analysing the pre-conference workshop sentiments”

Text Mining

Conference

NHS-R Community Conference: My experience of the day

“Reflections on the 2018 Conference”

Conference

From script-based development to function-based development and onwards to Package Based development

“How to build a function.”

Functions

A simple function to install and load packages in R

“A function to install packages if needed and load at the same time.”

Packages

NHS open source public datasets – creating realistic synthetic datasets

“Syntethic or dummy data sets in the NHS”

Synthetic dataset

How to extrapolate data from data

“Extracting data using {grepl} and {stringr}”

Strings

Evolution of the R user

“The stages of learning R (with excitement factor ratings)”

Personal Story

Seb Fox, Julian Flowers and Georgina Anderson, Public Health England.

Simpler SQL with dplyr

“Comparing dplyr with SQL nested queries”

R tips

SQL

dplyr

Patient Flow

John MacKintosh

Diverging Bar Charts – Plotting Variance with ggplot2

“The aim here is to create a diverging bar chart that shows variance above and below an average line.”

R tips

ggplot2

Base R

Diverging Dot Plot and Lollipop Charts – Plotting Variance with ggplot2

“The aim here is to create a diverging bar chart that shows variance above and below an average line.”

R tips

ggplot2

Base R

Histogram with auto binning in ggplot2

“Building the Histogram with auto binning”

R tips

ggplot2

Base R

Why Government needs sustainable software too

“In this blog post I want to talk about why Government needs sustainable software, the work being done to deliver it, and the lessons we learnt after the first year.”

Software

R studio shortcuts

“There is a full list of short cuts here and I have pulled together my three most used shortcuts.”

R tips

The :: operator

“Sometimes two packages will have a function with the same name but they will do different things.”

R tips

Importing and exporting Data

‘There are a large number of file types that are able to store data. R is usually able to import most of them but there are some caveats.’

R tips

The joy of R

‘Hello. My name is Julian and I am an R addict. I got hooked about 3 years ago when I took on a new role in Public Health England developing a public health data science team.’

Personal Story

Aiming for a wrangle-free (or reduced) world

‘I work as a Data Scientist at Public Health England. I am part of a small team that have a role in trying to modernise how we “do” data.’

Personal Story

NHS meets R

‘Hello and welcome to our nascent NHS-R Community; a community dedicated to promoting the learning, application and utilisation of R in the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom.’

NHS-R

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